Last week, on the day I was leaving for San Francisco, photographer Lydia Hudgens reached out to me about shooting one of my Style Dispatches. Though my bags were already packed, I’d literally just seen and dug her photos of my friend Gala, so I agreed. Which reminds me! Photographers: if you’re in LA and want to shoot one of these installments, email me. I’d forgotten how fun it is not shooting them myself.
In a way, I preferred it being done on the fly, actually, because this is just a real outfit I was planning on wearing, not something I hyper-styled especially for a shoot.
You’ll be pleased to hear that I’m still sticking to my Spartan Resolution, and not buying clothes in 2010. Strangely, more than halfway through the year, I haven’t really felt any pangs of desire. It could just be the fact that I have a TON of clothes, or all the moving and travel and general turmoil of the year. Whatever the case, it’s been a fairly easy and interesting experience.
One thing I’ve found is that, even with such restriction, there are things in my closet I just don’t wear. So, unless I find a way to wear some of these things before the year is done, they’re going away forever.
During our shoot, intrepid Lydia and I hoped to find a way to break into one of the beautifully-decrepit condemned buildings near the water. In my experience, these types of massive, ghostly warehouses tend to have the best light beating through dusty, broken windows. Breaking in, however, proved impossible because of strategically-placed guards, so we found other neighboring locations.
COMPONENTS
- John Fluevog Dame Agnes shoes
- Holy leggings
- Taffeta dress. I love this dress so much – feminine and utilitarian and classic.
- Striped metallic scarf
- Bag by Junior Drake
- Disco ball bracelet from a street vendor in Koreatown
- Matching stainless steel bracelets from when I was a body jewelry polisher
- Assorted bangles
- Caffeine molecule necklace by Made With Molecules
- Black heart ring by Lydia Marcos
- Eye & brow makeup by Sugarpill
Even MOAR pictures below!
Inkdrops 029 - Alkonost Tattoo Commission
Photo Flurry 119 - LA Trip for Gag Me With a Toon 5
Style Dispatch 025 - Color Supernova
lovely, as always :-)
Lovely! (I covet your shoes.)
Your Spartan Resolution is an inspiration to me; I am going to attempt the same and see if I can stick to it.
Gorgeous! I love that you were wearing this gorgeous get-up to travel, whereas most people toss on pajama pants and a t-shirt to catch a flight or whatever.
I don’t think I’m an enlightened enough being to give up buying clothing at alarming rates, yet, so I have to hope–can we look for another clothing purge via ebay any time soon..?
totally loving this blonde Zo’!
I really like the new hair. It makes you look very pixie-ish.
I love the long dress with patterned leggings for travel. Very vintage-y and feminine.
Sweet zombie jesus, I LOVE your make-up in these shots and your hair is looking awesome. Ugh, making me want to bleach my hair again…then probably promptly dye it as that always seems to happen. ^-^;
you look beautiful. i agree with the above comment- it’s so hard to leave that nice bleached hair alone for too long!!! but it looks great.
i was wondering what ever happened with your eyebrow tattoos? did they end up fading? did you ever post any pictures of you with no makeup? i’m just always curious about eyebrow tattooing …. thanks!
beautiful makeup
Flawless. Truly.
I am most envious of your always-perfect lips.
The dress! The scarf! Those necklaces I’ve always loved! I’m digging this outfit a lot (probably because for the past few months I’ve been dress-obsessed and finding plain ones to dazzle up is always fun).
I can never manage to drape a scarf around my neck well though. I think this is a subtle art that I will never learn. They always end up in my hair or hanging off my bag or something.
Great outfit and great pics!
oh, that caffeine molecule medal just made my medical student (and also coffee lover) heart beat faster, I want it! *.*
Your make-up is flawless perfect as always, never boring, but never too much as well. And you rock this short hairstyle, I’m glad you did it!
and that’s amazing that you haven’t been buying any clothes yet! I’m sure I couldn’t stand shopping :( (though I surely have less clothes than you :) )
More evidence that you are pure magic. It’s hard to pick a favorite picture when they are all so fantastic!
Wonderful pictures, and a bit of kick in the motivation department for myself and my desire to become a photographer.
Truly inspiring
Gorgeous as always. I am inspired as well by your Spartan Resolution, if it weren’t for so many damn cute boots out there! They get me every time!
Have a fun rest of your vacay. Love the hair by the way. It resembles mine except mine is long on top, and dark eggplant purple. It’s nice to have long and short in the same cut, no?
I love your pictures!
where did you get your glasses?
I love them!!!
lol I want to know where you got your glasses too!
hi! I love this photos!!
Your glasses are amazing ?
I’m going to publish 2 of them, obviously I put the source =] Hope it don’t bother you.
I love your look, and you are very pretty. I’m a lady of 52, Quebec, Canada.